Jiro

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by Jiro 4y ago
And stop blocking off exits for crowd control when the effect is that everyone's maps, which never list the blocked off exits, are useless.
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by Jiro 4y ago
He did resolve the issues with the police: >The police had access to all the information Google had on Mark and decided it did not constitute child abuse or exploitation. >Mark asked if Mr. Hillard could tell Google that he was innoce
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by Jiro 4y ago
The biggest category of things on Wikipedia not to trust is anything which is controversial and involves people on the Internet, either as participants or as reporters (which means a lot of recent material that's not just about bare fa
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by Jiro 4y ago
You're probably better off using adb. (Which does have its problems, like not handling copying directories well).
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by Jiro 4y ago
By that reasoning if you sold someone a tomato, that's 10g of tomato solids for each 200g of tomato, and actual tomatoes need to be labelled as "contains 5% tomato".
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by Jiro 4y ago
>That was the first he'd actually heard of it--humans had come up with it on their own--so he went and had a look, and then went and got blind drunk, because there are some things even demons would rather not think about. This seems
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by Jiro 4y ago
The appeals process is what determines that it's child porn. Also, not all of the things described even count as "forced to keep serving child porn". For instance, civil liability for acting on false reports doesn't for
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by Jiro 4y ago
By that reasoning there shouldn't be a death per month in the previous years. But there was. Going from that to nothing is a drastic change and rather improbable.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The one per month rate that I'm comparing it to is the previous months of the same list, and also includes only unnatural deaths.
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by Jiro 4y ago
This is misleading. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra... If you look at this, yes, no deaths are shown for the date of Near's death. But if you actually pay attention, no deat
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by Jiro 4y ago
They denounced Richard Stallman.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The biggest thing about lists on the Internet is that a huge portion of them are content farms, which pretty much overshadows everything else. And for many subjects, this is far worse than it is for books.
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by Jiro 4y ago
That works both ways. It's hard to give someone helpful advice without experiencing their situation. (Or at least, understanding it alot more than you probably think you do.)
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by Jiro 4y ago
They sell you printers with half empty cartridges to prevent [people buying new printers for the cartridges.
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by Jiro 4y ago
And who gets to decide that an idea is "diametrically opposed to the freedoms of others"? Nobody I'm confident in trusting, for sure.
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Innocent of anything that would merit being executed by a concerned citizen? Since when do we endorse vigilantism at all? There's absolutely such a thing as self-defense. If a woman kills her potential rapist, she's killed a
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by Jiro 4y ago
I've literally looked for things that I could reasonably expect to be on the Internet and couldn't find them on the Internet. The newest hot thing is still available, of course, but an obscure 5 years old show may not always be.
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by Jiro 4y ago
In that situation, the value of all cars went up, both new and used. The value of a used car was still much less than the value of a new car, you just didn't notice this because new cars didn't have their prices raised to corresp
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by Jiro 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons There's a legitimate reason why a car immediately loses its value. People are more likely to sell cars that have something wrong with them. The market price fo
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by Jiro 4y ago
"Examples of the opposite" being people who don't get arrested?
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by Jiro 4y ago
Online DALL-E generators often are deliberately prevented from producing good faces, because of the potential for abuse.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Many contexts in which the president is named in training data are political. And nobody's going to put a chatbot on the web without filtering out political material
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by Jiro 4y ago
Clamshell packaging is used to prevent theft.
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by Jiro 4y ago
This needs work. The first and only attempt I tried: Hi there. Do you know any good jokes? No, I was hoping to do a Turing test on you. Can you tell me how to make matzoh ball soup? Matzo ball soup is made with matzo balls and ch
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by Jiro 4y ago
I once tried to search for a scammer named "internal revenue services" (with an S at the end) and it just wouldn't let me, quotes or not. I tried it now and it's better, but not perfect. Most pages contain the term (as
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by Jiro 4y ago
Doctors are not supposed to harm patients even if the patient is above the age of 18. If the patient is likely to regret the operation, doing the operation is causing harm.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Because the doctor is performing the operation, and people are always responsible for their own actions . "They told me they wouldn't ever regret it and I foolishly believed them" isn't an excuse for avoiding responsib
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by Jiro 4y ago
"To control my body" is an absurd political spin on "because they expect me to regret it". Can she imagine that a doctor might actually think "I don't want to perform an irreversible, life-alterring operation
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by Jiro 4y ago
Telling people to apply online and hiring people who show up anyway is an asshole filter ( https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1209794.html ). You're preferentially giving benefits to people who are willing to break the rul
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by Jiro 4y ago
>But I really don't have enough time in the day to do it. Things that take time cost money, because time is valuable. You can pay in money to self-host, or you can pay in time, or you can pay in privacy and marketing, but you can&#

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